The steep decline of District 6 candidate Iris Zuniga’s campaign — and her sudden withdrawal earlier this week —  were vivid examples of the sudden twists and turns that part of any political campaign. Things can and do change quickly during campaign season, and no doubt there are many more twists and turns before we...

Parents from 24th Street Elementary met with LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy and regional superintendent Tommy Chang Thursday morning, January 24th, according to Parent Revolution. See full image below. Previous posts:  District, Union Face Opportunity from 24th Street Trigger, Contrasting Reactions to Parent Trigger

Here’s the flyer for Board Member Garcia that’s being distributed thanks to two labor-backed independent expenditure (IE) committees: Previous posts: Labor Groups Spend for Garcia & Sanchez, Checking Out the Campaign Flyers. Click here to look at the full image.

Below are some images from the Anderson-Zimmer candidate forum that took place earlier tonight.  We’ll have a full report as soon as possible. Meantime, feel free to scroll down for the real-time Twitter updates from the event.

We’re still looking for high-resolution (color?) versions — if you’ve seen them let us know — but in the meantime we thought you might want to see what the first couple of campaign flyers look like, especially since they’re so nice. Here’s a favorable one on behalf of District 6 candidate Antonio Sanchez. Click here...

In case you somehow missed it, here’s the viral GIF of 11 year-old Sasha Obama yawning just as the President was talking about education: On a more serious note:  Some liberal commentators don’t think that last week’s Obama plan to help schools hire armed guards will help. And:  according to the Huffington Post the Obama team is said to...

Tuesday night at the charter board meeting for John Macdonogh High School in New Orleans, there were at least a few parents and community members upset about how things were going at the school handed over to Steve Barr’s Future Is Now charter network last year. One key aspect of the emotion-filled event was the first...

Green Dot Public Schools, a network of unionized charter schools, is announcing a handful of changes to the Locke High School cluster of schools that will be of interest to admirers and critics. Located near Watts, Locke was converted to charter school status through a 2007 teacher petition and given over to Green Dot in...

The independent TFA spinoff known as Leadership for Educational Equity (LEE) has been quietly staffing up the past few months, including not only Joy SIlvern, former staffer to US Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Obama for America policy person but also communications guru Michael Amodeo (another veteran of the Obama campaign) and former TFA LA executive...

Here’s a live stream of updates from Twitter to help you follow along this morning as parents from 24th Street Elementary talk about their struggle and deliver 300 signed petitions to LAUSD Superintendent Deasy: Previous posts: Previewing Tomorrow’s Parent Trigger